Just finished up Lawyers in the Dock: Learning from Attorney Disciplinary Proceedings. Not a terrible book, but it could have been better. I was hoping for more ethical insights. Instead, I got an excess of unnecessary detail, and the whole book felt like an extended law-review article (and given the execrable quality of writing for many law-review articles, I do not intend that to be a compliment). I bought it because Oxford University Press was having a sale, and I am glad I did not pay full price. Now reading a book I picked up for 99¢ called The Bad Popes. I’m not Catholic or even religious, but for some reason the history of the Papacy interests me. As the title indicates, this book describes some of the least worthy people to ever sit on the chair of St. Peter.

Shyster wrote:Just finished up Lawyers in the Dock: Learning from Attorney Disciplinary Proceedings. Not a terrible book, but it could have been better. I was hoping for more ethical insights. Instead, I got an excess of unnecessary detail, and the whole book felt like an extended law-review article (and given the execrable quality of writing for many law-review articles, I do not intend that to be a compliment). I bought it because Oxford University Press was having a sale, and I am glad I did not pay full price. Now reading a book I picked up for 99¢ called The Bad Popes. I’m not Catholic or even religious, but for some reason the history of the Papacy interests me. As the title indicates, this book describes some of the least worthy people to ever sit on the chair of St. Peter.

For your second book, check out Borgias on Showtime. Season 1 should be out to rent by now. Not the greatest show in the world for a general audience, but if you have historical interest in the time period it is really good.

Froggy wrote:I think it took me an entire summer to get through It. Yeah, but the last couple hundred pages, I couldn't put it down. The way that the flashbacks resolved intercut with them as adults, and how they sort of paralleled... extremely well done. my biggest problem with the TV movie (and I have MANY problems with it] is how they.split it up into two stories instead of intertwining the stories like in the book. That, and without context, the whole giant spider thing makes no sense.

The giant spider at the end of the TV movie is like if they would have left the squid bomb in the watchmen movie without explaining the psychics on the island.

it's a shame there's no way "It" or "The Stand" could be compressed into 2-3 hour movies.

HBO sucks at original programming these days. would it kill them to throw some money behind a stephen king mini series?

The Brothers KaramazovThe Age of Innocence1984 Dead SoulsThe Adventures of Dr. Brown

I thought I would like Deal Souls more, but it was still a good read. If I were to identify my favorite author it would probably be Dostoyevsky right now. I really liked the Wharton book, I need to see if the House of Mirth is free on the Kindle. I want to read more from her.

Just finished The Betrayal of the American Right by Murray Rothbard. Rothbard, who lived through it and knew all of the players, explains in this book how the Republicans never really were the party they claim to be: one of small government, free markets, and limited regulation.

LeopardLetang wrote:anybody use goodreads.com. i just signed up to it and it's pretty glitchy but it seems like a good place to get recommendations on genres you're into.

I just signed up this weekend. Not really sure how to utilize it...i need to find some time at work today to fool around on it.

Yeah, I've been using it for a few years now. Great place to track the books you've read and WANT to read. You can use the phone app to scan ISBNs in your "to read" list, find reviews, shop for better prices etc. You can also see/share with friends what you're reading as well.

It will also send you updates when your favorite authors are releasing new works etc.

You know, I'm on the second book and I really have no want to finish this. It's seriously plodding over descriptive crap for the majority of the book. The first book was the same way for about 150 pages of payoff. This is what was a world wide success? What the ****, it's not that good.